The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-09 00:00:00

illeeSS ad left ed by ) were lamp . ok an daY. incess Prince e Yes' Vight. P 1 . 39 t yach t, rrived 'Jere ~ a nd to the vol in or the ra ado L e nt of , atiOn. iraWn three i n cites iotic ed mark; „ v u of t he ere ll° ; leave Princ e la y 0 11 ;cl, 13° E dge. Peri l to o, Dew : ads (4 rioc 4B t theY maili iing l l beach' ;star• ed au' Tl3° ,„,013; a, 04 dui to ore t ot ire "„ he/'' ONLY MARKET AND COMDIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE o'CLocx: Th ere appears to b e a l ess un f avoura b le feeling re There monetary affairs, although nothing of Importance has occurred this morning to alter the aspect of the market. The suppliea have not been quite so abundant, but the rates nevertheless remain at 81 and 9 per cent. for the negotiation of the best commercial paper. The bills of Messrs Newby, Carson, and Co., of G resham House are stated to have been returned by !heir b ankers. Tho house has been largely Engaged 1 ° thc East Indian trade, and the failure is supposed to have arisen in consequence of losses in connection With regular business transactions. During the last few days there has been rather less alteration in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets. Sugar was barely sustained at previous P ri ces. Coffee has been in limited request ; while the operations in tea had been deferred until the Public sales, which take place this day. Rice, fruit, and saltpetre, have been neglected ; while tallow has been in rather more demand, and, owing to the higher rata ruling at St. Petersburg, quota tations for both present and forward delivery haye sh own an upward movement. The failure of Mr Frederick Frankenheim, who has recently been a large speculator in Stock Ex. change securities, has been reported. The liabili ties are estimated at £lOO,OOO. He has ad dressed the following circular to his creditors : — London, Aug. 8. I regret to inform you that owing to he a vy l osses upon the Stock Exchange I have been compelled to suspend Payment. Messrs. Coleman, Turquand, Youngs, and Co. prepare a statement of my affairs for submission to meeting of my creditors at the earliest opportunity.— Your obedient servant, FRED, FRANKEI , THEESC. t The gold op era ti ons at the Bank of England yes- Le,tdaY afternoon comprised the withd rawa l o f *l4lO O for exportation, and the purchase of £2,000. Two o'CLocK. At Paris this day, according to M r . R en t er ' s tele gram, the French 3 per Cents. were 66t, 45c. , The E ng li s h S toc k M ar k e t h as s h own t hi s morn . InR increased symptoms of,heaviness, and the busi lleae transacted has been very limited. Console for 11104 eY are a little flater at 88i 89, and for the sc. d (l tint at 89 9-16 11.16. The New Threes and Re aeed Annuities are 88k j ; Exchequer Bills, 25e. to 15,. die.; India 5 per Cents., 1031 1041; En. 4ce d 5i per Cents., 112 ; and the Bonds, 15s, dis. In the Foreign department the few changes that have taken place have been generally favour. ab le. Mexican (ex all) have advanced 1-16 to 281 ; th e New Stock is better at 251 26; Greek Bonds a re also ahigher, at 231 ,-1-; Spanish Passive i t , at ; Turkish Consolides I, at 494 I; and the Confederate Loan remains at 75; 761. In the Railway Share Market the dealings 'Lave been very restricted, and prices have shown ra ther less firmness. Brighton, and Lancashire and Yorkshire have each declined 10s., and Mid. Ifisd and North Eastern (Berwick), ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines have shown little variation. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares :have remained doll. Alliance have receded to 63, Consolidated to 104„ London and County to 751, and Union of London to 50, Discount Corporation have declined to 141, and East India Irrigation and Canal to 5, Natal Investment Shares are quoted 1 14 prem., Maritime Credit, lt 24 prem., and London Engi neering and Iron shipbuilding Company, lf, 2 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. , GoVERNMENT FUNDS. ° Per Cent. Consols ~ Do Account, Aug. 8 ~,,,u per Cent. Reduced " k ew 3 per Cent. 66 * 1 * "e ~w 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 - uo 6 per Cent., Jan. 1873 a Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.. , ) ,0 for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885... 14i ' 0 (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908... R x , l , Mach. June --A quer Bills, £l,OOO, 3& 3f per Cent. 25 die . Da £5OO b b 0 £lOO and £2OO ..A t e. us, England Stk 5i per Ct. 4-1,1 A _ , "' , ..tint,.. Ix T , --...11 , - / . UOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ndia Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 213 D 0 Account — ~e 0 5 per Cent. July, 1870 4.„-1 Account — Do 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 ~.., Do Certificates .„," 0 t afaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. -,.,"° 6 per Cent., Jan. 1872 — DO"e 5 i per Cet., May, 1879 • 112 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 .. No Bonds slOOO l5 die "°llnder £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 44t rian Bonds, 5 per Cent — A Do 1859 .. % atri a; 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins — tr 0 Account — DO 5 pe r C ent --`) li per Cent., 1 8 5 2-58-60 Bee ii° 1863 — 1) 0 jill°B Ac cunt 6 per Cent — _ oh• i ° 1 Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont.) — DOll 6 per Cent. C O l 4 t Pet Cent. .. _ ete rublaa 6 per Ce T I , 6 per Cent. ..., 0 6 E,, Per Cent. 1864 belidor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent --. E R „,, 41 , 8 , 11 , 3 per Cent 1825 Ij r ,e‘T,•o 7 per Cent .. 101} 100} Gr e a Second Issue - D O -- - A 0 Per Cent., 1824-5, ox-Coup ons 23 1) 0 R ecount D a l eo Pous — r h,.."*. o com il . L — It,, •• • . _ Do 1 8 ,, s it per Cent. cb,,, ,"u and 1859 ....... . 41 - "Per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) ..- exi c ,,„ 1) "m 3 per Cent t o A ccount 2Bl 1- ) 6 Per Cent, 1864 1 Lo French S • Ex. 25f 20c I)cup, die Di 6 Per Cent. Anglo-French 1 uto Scrip, L 23 paid die „rieh Imperial 5 per Cent vvi' Granad a — I) .. ,o 2 err dent. DO Deferred -Do L and Warrants (Hectares) .. 1)0 Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1364 "- b e Do do A ug ., 1866 ' SanDo 4/ per C en t .. Do per Cent. (U r ib arren ) 1) 0 41 per Cent., 1862 .. ~ be A cc0unt........ 4- ortugue se 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account •• -- Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3.. 43k Do Account 47k Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 41 per Cent., 1850 Do 1860...... — Do 3 per Cent 1859 Do 5 per Cent, 1862 Do Anglo-Dutch , Do Scrip, 140 paid pm " 4 tainian 5 per Cent , 4 Do Account — 'Punish 3per Cent 19 P ,0 Account - u0 New Deferred D°t) Account . Pusive 1 n. Account 291 30 is - o eh Cert. of Coup not funded ISN.,,,,Account .. .„ t a li) 4 per Cent —. 4 kri t •Xrip, 460 paid *— PIZI 1.) 0 1- Z 6 per Cent. 1854 — L a - `eeount 6 90 I .00 Ac' Per Cent. 1.85 S I.) a :ottnt 72 It 1)0 6 j OO • - 'Bonds D o Per C en t . 18 62 69} 9 D e , Account £lOO Bonds.. 69t t ' D 01863 Verse i o f, .. zvo_sratteed, 4 per Cent .;3 0 ra 3 per Cent. - t),,,, 6 'count i, per Cent. 1862 4- , o A ce() 9 bo 8 unt ... D o i ,e per3o paid dis .2 Cent Bel Dividends on the above payable in Lond oli • hg i all 4/ —ut e b, o , 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f — ~_ t),, 4 4 1 Per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull .... Atali a , Per Cent. Certificates . D o ' Per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs -- -b_ ACCCRiat . -- v , retel i -1, ......... rertiv• '''''lteB9 per Cent . 13 ied 43,0 ,,,p011 ap r Bonds, 4} per Ct. Es. 4s. se, er Cent., Ex. 25i ..... Co- TWO O'CLOCK . lon©y 88 1 D ° Ac count .... 89 9-16 11-1 6 0 Sept. 89 9.16 11-16 ................. R 1 a _ . . . 4011:- B.ESENTATION OF PONTEFRACT.--Mr. Isaac t ee 11 ' °f Oakworth House, near Keighley, has consented fo ° l , - 1 , -1118 forward as a candidate at the next general election 1 1 4 °llt6l ltet) in opposition to Major Water/louse, N.P.— ichv6ter Examintr. x•. 16. 1 100 1 1 l 100 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Share oir Sk Railways Atlantic & St Lawrence Rom.,Baroda&Cent Inc Gu. 5 per cent. Do. New . ••• Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Lase Huron Do. Preference Buffalo,BrantAGodrich 6 p. ot. bds, Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1879 Clcutta,,ltS.Eastn. (Lim, Cape Town Dock Sufi Eastn. Bengal gu. D p. East Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext Do. do. II do. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stook Paid: - all 100 7i Sit all 'Co stftk Stock stook 100 stook Do. do. deferred.... t.lndisPenin.gua.sp:o . Do. Isiew gua. 5 p. 0... Do. January, 1862 t. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. t. W. of Canada Shares Do. New .. ...... Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-B._ Indian. - Branch Limited Madras, guar., 5 p. 0. Do. 41 p. 0. Extension De. 44 d 0.... Do. Fifth Extension Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds Melb. & Hobson's Bay Do. 7 p. o. Mortg. Bds N ewßr unswiok & Cande Class d and 8.. N.Rl.C'ds6 Po let pi bds Soinde ...... —.. ) Do. Delhi ~...... 1 A.: Do. (to_ ... ..., . ca f Lo. rniattb .... t 5 Do. Do. .......• f,,ti Do. indus.St. Flo. stock stock, 100 100 100 100 100 100 I I 2 all 100 Cloeing Price. - 58 60 - ico, oars} p 7i 81 75 80 75 80 75 80 97 93 94 93 101 305 1(0 JON par p par r, 19 23 71 73 60 63 66 68 55 67 48 5: 43 45 27 29 26 28 101 102 par Ip 98 ICO 9} 91 11 10V 89 91 82 81 d fp 99 100 92 94 88 90 60 62 3 5 82 84 99 101 99 ICO * id 99 100 93 95 Business done 10C} 1 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. cah.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja &J uly 1877-84 100 95 98 Do. 4p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 100 103 Do. 6p. O. Mar.& Sept 100 100 102 Do. sp. o. Jan.&July. 10C 85 88 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 85 83 Cape G.Hope, 8 p c,1873 100 104 106 Do.Ap &Oct. 1830 100 107 109 Do. 1890 100 109 111 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 107 109 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 111 113 iMauritius 6 per cent lOO 104 106 Natal Gov. 6 per cant 100 106 108 N.B.Gov. p.c. Ja.&July 100 93 100 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 1,186( 100 96 9 8 Do. sp. c.,18/1 to 1870 100 961 97 6 Do. do., iBBB & upwds 100 961 071 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. a. sterling, 18 7 5 100 99 101 Queensland GCv. 6p. o 100 101 104 ;03 S. Aus G6p.c.1678.& up 100 106 108 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.ArJuly 100 Do. to °p.c. A.0.400k. 10C 1084 1091 109 BRITISH MINES. 2 .;amt,rian Consul. Gold 1 4 id ..;11fr•Jrd Amalgamated 33 84 Dr von G. Cone. (Tavist , 1 575 685 ast Bassett(lllogan) 30 08 70 - ' East Clogau Gold Ltd East Caradon ..... 28 29 284 East Cam Brea... 3.4.0 81 81 E. W'l Hassel (Tavistk.j 8.13.0 44 5 Gam.&StAuhyn(Gwen , 581 6 8 G :eat South Tolgus 175 21 21 X. Wheal Vor (lielston, 40 26 28 Grenville . flemd's-Foot ...... 8.12 118 40 Llingston Downs 4.18.0 31 41 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant 94 8 10 arke Valley.. 4 11yndy Iron Oro (Lim ; 24 14 1 d New Seton l9l 75 85 —• North Downs 3 11 11 Basset (Mogan, 3.1.0 2 24 North Wheal Crofty Par Consols (St. Blaze) l'rovidence(Uny Lelnt.) 10.0.7 40 42 3outhCaradon(StCleer, 11 470 480 S. Carn Brea (Illogan) — S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.18.9 45 50 Stray Park 30.17.6 28 30 famar Silv.& Lead Min. -- rin Croft 9 174 184 West Basset (Illogan) l4 9 10 W Cr radon (Liskcard) 5 15 17 15 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) 54 874 911 Wheal Buller(ltedruth) 10 a 5 28 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhcalLudeott .. . ... 3.5.8 14 2 Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) 8 14 16 Wheal 3etou 584 215 221 Wheal Trelawney (Lis ) 7 19 21 Wheal Union 4 14 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 2, 108 Gt. Western, South Wales, gua. 5 per cent., 102 Gt. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford, 2d guaranteed stock, 124 West Mid., Newp. 5 per cent. pf. rd. at 5 per cont. pm., IN London, Chatham, and Dover 3 per cent. pref., 98 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOGIES. Great Eastern 4i per cent., 92i FOREIGN RAILWAYS: Bahia and San Francisco (11m.) gua. 7 per oent., 16} Western and North-Western of France, 201 FOREIGN MINES, St. John del Rey Mtn.), 33) Yudanarautana of S. Austplia, lim,, 21 BANXEL Alliance (11m.), 63 Ditto, new, 07i Angl'., Austrian, 7} Ba of Egypt, 29i 30 I:sank of London, 171 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, Ditto, new, 37 Consolidated Bank, lim., 101 English and Swedish, lim., 16 i European Bank, lim., 131 Ditto (£OO, 8 Imperial Bank of India, China, and Japan, lira., ei Imperial Ottoman, lei Land Mortgage Bank of India, Um., 6} London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lira., 8 k London and Colonial (lim.), London and County, 70i London Joint Stock, 48f London and 11 estminster, 05} Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 281 scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, lim., 121 Union of Australia, 824 Union of LOndon, 00 ,: M ISCELLANEOUS. pgmba Gas, litn. Oomrnery cial Union, Insurance,;Bl Continental Union Gas, lint,, V Discount Corporation, 14/ East India Irrigation and Canal, 5 Fore-street Warehouse, lint., 7 Gen. - Credit and Finance of London, 11m., 61 I Home and C )lonial Assurance, lira., 6 Hudson's Bay, le/ Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lim., 91 International Financial Society, limA 94 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto Stock Discount. Um,. () er cent. Bonds re 6/. dem. 1870, Issu e d 90, 831 Joi l .ll, . !.and Credit of Ireland, lint., b/ Land Securities, lim., London Financial Association, lim., 2{l el Ditto, new, 19.} London General Omnibus Company, 21 London Provincial Marine, 31 Madras Irrigation and Canal, Ditto, new, 191 Milwall Iron Works, 5/ National Discount Company, Um., 131 Oriental Commercial, lint., 10/ 110 Oriental Inland Steam, 31 Ottoman Financial Assodiatien, Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 80 Smith, Knight, and Co., lim., 5 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lint., Trust and Loan Company cf Upper Canada, Universal Marine. Insurance, 1im.,16 West India and Pacific Steam, lien„ 13$ Book BEARE ZARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOO&S. ''•4' Share) Railways. p a id, Closing Business ' Price. done. Wol., and S tr. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Slest.,andfdid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A f A gets no Do. B ti 6p c.p an.has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast Juno. Dun..Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian s t GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern... Do A stook Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland Great Western ........ Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Scr.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Haryport and Carlisle. Dot shares lfetropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby 41d. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares hid Kent Do Cray Line Sorth British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.. . North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E. 9 Aber. stock Do Soot. Mid. stock Shrews, and Welohpoo: Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun ' Staines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton & Darlington Do Da New, ISSG Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster $ $ 9 9i 85 17 124 125 125 i i 6 6 7 35 36 16 17 CO 02 110 112 47 48 7} 71 133 135 15.1 151 131 133 92 VI 68i 6) 120 120 68 70 105 i 106 i 41 43 llii 116 i 98 09 67 68 112 113 1374 138 108 110 54 65 25 26 108 109 65& 68i 95 95 126 129 _4 I.§ 11 78 80 10i 11 125 130 39 41 57 59 84 26 92 94 103 105 7 8 37} 38i 10 11i p 8 i Oil 165 170 6 7 v 3 t p Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria eta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland —Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 100 103 34 36 13.14, Wife—One day last week ho took up a knife to me. A constable—l saw the prisoner throw a pail of water over his wife and then threaten to knock her about with the pail. She was lying on the pavement, and when she got up, the prisoner made a rush at her. Mr Tyrwhitt—l shall order the prisoner to find two sure ties in the sum of £2O each to keep the peace for three months, and as he takes nothing home for his family this will not injure them. _ _ ROBBING A. CONTRACTOR.—WM. Cromwell, a labourer, in the employment of Mr Docura, an extensive contrac tor for gas and water works, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with stealing some lead pipo, the property of his employer. It appears that the pipe being missed yesterday from the works going on in Wardour-strect, George Smith, a ganger in Mr Docura's employ, gave a piece to a constable, who traced that some lead had been sold at a marine store dealer's in St. Anne's-court, which corresponded with the piece; and on the marine store dealer, Mr Jelley, seeing the prisoner he at once recognised him as the man he had twice bought lead pipe of yesterday. The prisoner was then given into custody. Mr Robert Drummond, foreman to Mr Dooura, said the works going on in Wardour-street were for the Chartered the Company, and that Mr Docura had thirty gangs of men in different parts of London, and that they had had numerous robberies of a similar kind of late by workmen, It was the wish of Mr Docura, as an example to others, that the case bhvuld go to a jury. The taking away the pipe had caused a heavy claim for damage to be sent in to Mr Docura. Mr Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner, who pleaded guilty, For two months with hard labour. THAMES. MR STANLEY ON THE FLRIOITS DRIVING NUISANCE. —Thomas Stanley and Francis Maria Stanley, man and wife, were charged with being drunk, disorderly, and furious driving. Daniel Cole, a police-constable, No 287 K, said a large number of persons were collected in the Mile End-road, to witness the return of an amphibious vehicle, a boat rigged like a ship, and mounted on a carriage, called the Fairlop. The prisoners, a child, and two other persons were in a cart drawn by a high-spirited horse. The prisoner, Thomas Stanley was proceeding at the rata of thirteen or fourteen miles an hour, and put many persons in danger. He was mounted on horseback, and galloped after the cart. He called upon the male prisoner to go slower, but he continued at the same furious pace until he reached the Earl Grey public-house, where he stopped him. Both pri soners were intoxicated. The woman attempted to rescue her husband when he was in custody. The prisoners expressed their regret for what had happened, and said they had been to Chigwell and lost their way. They followed another cart. Mr Bowdler, the second clerk, said the practice of furious driving in the Mile-end and Bow-roads was a dangerous nuisance. Mr Paget fined the male prisoner 10s., and discharged Mrs Stanley. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, Market unchanged. Sales, probably 5,000 bales, SHIPPING-THIS DAY. LONDON, Aug. 9.—Wind this day at noon—South- West; moderate breeze and cloudy weather, with some rain. CARDIFF, Aug. B.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—john Ceok rell, for Martinique. BRISTOL, Aug. B,—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Newington, from Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Peter Kraeft, from Demerara. CLYDE, Aug. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Flowing Sea, 'torn Quebec. NEWPORT, Aug. B.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Agrippine, from Sierra Leone—Andromache, for Jamaica. Sailed— It' for St Thomas. HULL, Aug. S.—Wind N.lV,—Arrived—Rapid, from Rio Grande. FALMOTJTIt, Aug. 0. * Win S.—Arrived—Neptune, from Akyab—Justa, from Havannah--Amalie, from Ham. burg for Rio Grande. (13Y MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, August 9—Ansunian, from Trinadad—Albion, from Kurraches—Jantje, from Christianstadt—Agida, from Quebec—Alarm, from Smyrna—Caledonia, from Archangel—Napoleon, from Gravelines—Georgiana, from St. Petersburg—Avance from Sundswall—Lady dordon, from Archangel—Anna Gertrude, from Bandholm—Furet, from Gravelines—Glory, from Jersey—Longo Rims from Cronstadt—Devonshire, from St. Kitt's—Baron Holberg, from Sundswall—Ahu Casharine, from St. Lucia. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed.—Constantine, from Havannah, for London. Sailed.—Leon liayrainde, for Valencia—and moat of the outward bound. CAPTAIN SEMMES ON THE WARRlOR.—Visited the Warrior. The Governor and suite, and a num• ber of naval and other officers, civilians, and ladies, visited her by appointment at the same time. The Warrior is a marvel of modern naval architecture, and for a first experi ment may be pronounced a success. She is a monstrous impregnable floating fortress, and will work a revolution in shipbuilding. Wooden ships, as battleships, must go out of use. With this single ship I could destroy the entire Yankee fleet blockading our coast, and this id the best illus tration I can give for the necessity of this revolution in shipbuilding.—Cruise of the Alabama and Sumter by Captazn Semmes. OUTRAGE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—On Fridays in Wolverhampton, two men from Liverpool, who said their names were John O'Malley and Richard Han bury, and were travelling drapers, were each convicted of insulting a respectable married woman, the wife of Mr George Thompson, a clerk in the service of the Great Western Railway Company in Wolverhampton, and using obscene and blasphemous language in a railway train on that company's line on the previous night. Mr Spooner, the stipendiary magistrate, in addressing tut; prisoners, said :—" If it was not that I wish to spare the lady whom you have so grossly insulted from having to appear again in court and repeat her tale, your conduct has been so Lad that I would send you for trial. As it is I will give you the highest penalty in my power. You are each fined 45 and costs, In default, you will be imprisoned three months with hard labour." The complainant was travel ling in the same carriage with the prisoners, whose con duct was the most gross short of actual assault.—Shef field Daily Telegraph. CHLOROFORM ACCIDENTS.—The heart's action is stopped, and its right cavities engorged, not on account of the action of chloroform on the heart, but the action of chloroform on the lungs. If, in one hundred ex periments on dogs, rabbits, &c., poisoned by this agent, we find this remarkable fulness of the right cavities, an anterior or antecedent condition has been overlooked, via,, that this gorging of these cavities and the cave, is only a species of back current or remora, caused by the lungs (in a state of paralysis) not receiving or transmitting this blood. The heart, as a matter of every day observation in animals, so far from being narcotised, is dilated, and strives actively, but in vain, to push forward the large volumes of blood arriving through the veins of the syste . m. The heart is decidedly ullimum moraens in these cases—indeed, acme good conti nental physiologists explain the deaths from chloroform eaying there is over-stimulation of the heart I This is probably not true, however. Comparing rather, one group of facts with other groups of facts (systematising our experi ence), the error of the hasty generalisation that paralysis of the heart is the cause of death, is now at once made obvious. These coincidences in practice illustrate best some of the popular errors of watching the pulse, adopting as infallible some sort of balloon or inhaler—giving heed to every idle fancy, but forgetting the cardinal point to watch the breathing. We now have learned to cure pneumonia without bleeding, which bleedings previously were considered the sine qua non remedy—but they were only the most striking or showy of; a: series of remedies. We used to pass a red-hot iron round the hip joint in " morbus coxes," then set it straight and place it in a splint. The red-hot iron got the credit of the cure; it was the most feeling, showy, and important measure, but the undoubted cure is due rather to the splint and readjust. ment of the parts. These:ooincidences, that have so misled some practitioners, abound in practice and the entire theory of chloroform, or anas , :thetics, and till they shall have been discountenanced no advance can be made.— Dr Kidd's Work cn Chloroform. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills.—Worn-out suf ferers may hope for relief from these purifying and strength ening pills after physic and physicians have failed to effect a cure. In all disorders of the stomach, irregularities of the bowels, derangements of the liver, and diseases of the kidneys, these pills will be found especially useful in re instituting order and restoring health. Holloway's till, clear away obstructions, remove poisonous particles from the blood, secretions, and system generally, give purify and regularity to the circulation, tone, and power of the stomach, energy and vividness to the brain. Holloway's pills can be confidently recommended as restoratives of n atitutions shattered and broken up by excessive mental labour, intemperance, inordinate indulgence, or other hard ships, which soaks the young man old. 120 101 101 43 116 98 137}} P ME SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1864. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CRUEL TREATMENT OF A WlFE,—Thomas Marshall, a tall rough-looking fellow, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with assaulting and threatening his wife. Tho wife—l am the mother of nine children. My husband threw a pail of water over me in front of Mr Squire's shop, in the Tottenham-court-road, where I have stood with a "'tall for years, and he also told Mr Squires that I had stolen some meat from his shop. He has illuaed me before and in consequence of his illusago I had to undergo the operation cf having one of ray breasts cut off, and was in the hospital for some weeks, and received a little assistance from the court. Mr ryrwhitt—Have you any children ? Wife—l have, and work hard to support them, and am willing to do so as long as he does not annoy or kick me. Mr Tyrwhitt—You are not obliged to live with such a savage fellow. State Portraits of their Royal Righnesses PAINTED BY THE DORE JENSEN. Now ON VIEW AT 1 1 PLEAN'S, IN THE HAYMARSET. The catalogue of the Portraits already taken of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prineess of Wales must, even now, we should imagine, be very considerable. Any one who sauntered into this last season's exhibition of paintings at the Royal Aca. demy, will have recognised more than one notable addition to the number of those Portraits. But con spicuous among those latest attestations at once to the popularity and to the comelinees of the Heir to the Crown and his Pair young Bride, were the two remarkable pictures now on view at Mr. 111'Lean's well-known studio in the Haymarket. They are incomparably to our mind the very finest among all the numerous portraits of their Royal Highnesses that have been yet produced. And they are so—they take thus (in cur estimation) prece dence among all other contemporary portaitures of the Prince and Princess of Wales—at once as works of art and es likenesses, as" counterfeit presentments" of the illustrious originals. They are the works, these two noble pictures, of a Danish artist, emi nhyeonet, righthg doubtless, his of ham h since, in his native land, is questionable powers, new we might say inevitably, to though ourselves. Now that we can see them in a betterdis tancef than when we first saw them—high up, at any rate light , above theand h rz more reasonable , the Royal Academy Exhibition, we recognise more distinctly than we wer e enabled to do then t h e man if o ld excel lence of Theodore Jensen's po r t ra it s o f their Royal Hi g hnesses —portraits, for those reasons (namely, the better light in which and the lesser altitude at which they are here at length displayed to view) —portraits for these reasons, really and truly as we may say now for the first time exhibited, eel.• tainly for the first time satisfactorily exhibited, at Mr. MiCleala's in the Haymarket. The Prince's por trait, as here given, is the first th a t h as ever b ee n of himself but o f any ill us t r ious arrayed i n t h e magn ifi c ent p p e a r i s o o t n ed ag n e o w t only o f robes of a knight of the,Order of the Star of India ! The delicate, exquisitely pale blue (almost whitish blue) silk robe of the last created order of• knight. hood, depending from H.R.H.'s shoulders and trail. ing along the dais upon which he stands forth to view in the easiest of natural attitude. Otherwise peculiarity of his cos• tome,th a than in t t h h e i s Princedistinguishing is arrayed, according to his favourite wont, in the full uniform of a British general officer—i.e. in scarlet and gold, with other soldierly and princely appurtenances. En circling the neck and pendant upon the bosom, the star and collar of the glorious order of Indian Knighthood already particularised. In the companion picture, the beautiful young Princess Alexandra, now Princess of Wales, destined (if life be but spared to herself and her royal husband) to become Queen Consort of Eng land—in this companion picture of ou r already sumptuous queenly-looking velvet y dressoun g "d Princess, e "deeply, p l y darkly, beautifully H.R.H. is robed in a blue," that is, in other words, of the true Denmark blue in colour, the velvet texture of the robe and the dark richness of the colouring, being en- hanced or set off by a w onder ful rendering— thanks to the skill of the art is t's magical brush— wa e b w really o r k wonderful clouds rendering, in a ll it s f a i r y gorgeous lace—lace here touched into the sembii3nce of reality in all the mazes of its gossamer-like embroidery. Added to this, among the mere accesscnies to this sump tuous portraiture of the Princess, tho artist has de picted some amongst the many marvellous treasures, in the shape of jewellery lavished at the tame of her bridal upon the lovely young Princess—presents from her Majesty, from his Royal Highness the Bridegroom, from one and another of the august per sonages in the two Royal families then about to be allied. A very synosure among coronets glittering resplendently in its prc-eminence among all these treasures I Precious stones of the costliest value, and these disposed in the most elaborate and ex quisitely tasteful settings—around the neck, upon the bosom, pendant from the shoulder-knots, encircling the delicate fingers, twinkling at the waist and about the stomacher ! Altogether, apart from these more surroundings, adjuncts, or acces sories toithe interest and splendour of these two noble portraits of their Royal Highnesses as painted by the hand of Theodore Jensen—these portraits, viewed simply and solely as portraits, command at once our interest and our lasting admi ration for themselves. Simply as portraits, we repeat, they are the very best that have yet been pro duced.which—as who can fail to fact, who looks upon them recognise e the previous Recognising knowledge of the originals they are designed to represent —it cannot be a matter of surprise to learn that the list of subscribers to the engravings of these two pictures, engravings now in active prepare list that grows fr om d a y . to day with unaccustomed rapidity, eve n i n the instanc e o f Stateprepara tion, on is a Portraits of the highest personages in the realm under the Sovereign. "ON MODERN COSTIIME."—Sneh is the title given to a brochure recently issued by E. Moses & Son, of the Mineries. The great object of its gratuitous publica tion will at once suggest itself to the mind, but the author has so ingenio-asly blended the literary element with his commendations of the firm and its manufactures, that if it m ay not be pronounced to rank among the " literary curto sities of the age, at all events it is an advertising curio- One thing is also certain, that its pages —which are elegantly with lively anecdote — cannot Romans, thes, Egyp ti a ns, &c., a tsw b hl e .rteyi l a tit a n'e' d fnoe:v a ame t nnad a tii n nwo y litehl s el h eoi o llyn p vet eeagry ye ar 64. eap'd6teilirl d The essay commences with a no tice of the nataionnaalcocmosetsunadoews of th very best sp ecimens of whio h may, of course, be seen in the Mi nc ries. The foll owin g brief extracts will convey an idea of the style and scope of t he pamphlet :—‘, Our modern a to oure Greeks,o wn time; fash i ons always run into extremes% At the beginning of thii; cen !ury an amorous swain Was delighted to see the wa ist of ii ;.y lady love almost o n a level , v ,:h her shoulders ; and now the I:ais t a a young lad y of 18 is long as that o f her great-grans. The vast bonnet CnC° pro jected so far in front t ,; • at it was lik e peeping down k . : lane if you tried to see the face, Then came the little bonn...t , like a small cap, on the back of t,l'e head, threatening to By away at the first puff of wind. Now , 1 : 1 1e bonnet is brought . more forward, loaded with ornacients, a zd raised like a helmet with a sharp peak. The f as h ions c h a nged just as rapidly with our ancestors as they ydo with us," Again. "Sometimes the fashion that is obstinately independort of Kings and Queens g ives way before some trivial incident, or changes in a moment under some sudden impulse of dis gust. Mrs Turner, a physician's widow, invented the yellow starched ruff; but as she had a hand in the murder of Sir Thomas Overburyrand went to the gallows with a yellow ruff round her neck, the fashion died with the in ventress. Black satin was once in vogue; but, as Mrs Manning wore it o n the gallows, tie lady of fashion has worn it since. 4, ti on what apparent trifles the whole I,cha racter of a costume —nay, the very charter of the wearer —may depend, when good taste is wholly departed from! Fashion is regarded as the sole test of propriety, If a coat collar be the eighth of an inch too broad or too narrow for the latest mode, or the two waist buttons on the back of the co,:t be too neighbourly or too distant, or if the coat be too swallow-L.' filed, er have too broad a termination, we at the wearer.tom That which to-day is laugh incontinently . is to-morrow the perfection of propriety purely ludicrous. or hero becomes a pitiful ' Guy,'—a figure The greatest sage for a pantomime,—if his dress be Ott of fashion, How neces sary it is, then, to be careful in the L'Noice of one's tailor!" Several apt anecdotes are given of Ge n ,;:lem an . G eorge IV. and Brummell, and the following f rom Lh,"ly Morgan— we don't know which to admire the most, the c Oting sar casm of the lady or the use to which it has now been I :ut : Lord Anglesea was once as great a toilet-model to tn.? Princeßegent (afterwards George IV , ), as Beau Brummell. ' Lady Morgan records an amusing Conversation with his lordship. "Lord Angle sea," said her ladyship, " some ad mire yon as Lord Lieutenant, some for your heroism ; but I admire you for—" Lord A.—" For what, Lady Mor gan ? ' Lady M.-46 for the cut of your coat. Who is your tailor l'' In these days this question put to any remark ably well-dressed man is pretty sure to be met with but one answer—which we leave to the sagacity of the reader. A very pleasant half -hour, however, may y be spent in the perusal of this brochure front the Minories, ACCIDENT AT A RAILWAY STATION.--.A fatal accident occurred at the Chelmsti)rd station of the Great Eastern Railway yesterday morning. Mr. Frank Snell was walking along the line towards the station on the down side, with a small hamper in his hand, and when he was a short distance from the station he was knocked down by the mail train from London, which is duo at 10.15 a.m. The train passed over his body, mangling it in a shocking manner. The driver. on seeing Mr. Snell, blew his whistle, but tho deceased, who was rather deaf, probably did not hear it= H e 'r ' highly respected is the neigh bourhood. The Nightingale Fund, The committee of the Nightingale Fund met at 5, Cliffo rd-street, on the 27th July, when the annaal accounts and reports for the year ending the 24th June were presented. _ It appeared that fifteen probationers were under training at St. Thomas's Hospital, for permanent hospital nurses. Eight had completed their proba tionary term during the past year, two had been dismissed, and one had resigned. Altogether 34 probationers had left the school to take service in various hospitals and infirmaries. The demand for trained hospital nurses had in creased and was even greater than could be supplied, but a sufficiency of well qualified candidates was not always forthcoming. The committee had no difficulty in finding situations for their trained nurses at competent salaries. At King's College Hospital, under the superin tendence of the authorities of the St. John's-house Training Institution for Nurses, the school for training midwifery nurses to be employed exclu sively among the poor had made satisfactory progress. The women had completed their training during the past year. These were employed nearly all in country parishes with the sanction of the resident clergy and medical men, and either under their immediate direction or that of some resident lady. In some caess individuals, and in others the Parochial MissioeAssociation,had become responsible for their maintenance. The regulations for the admission of candidates of both classes, and other information may be ob tained from the secretary, 11, Lombard-street, E.C. Course of Exchange 1---Yesterday, Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 12 1 Antwerp . .. 25 70 Brussels — 25 70 Hamburgh Park Ditto Marseilles — 25 70 Frankfort on Maine — 1203 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — 3 li Berlin — Madrid Cadiz —48 i Leghorn — 25 72} Milan — 25 75 Genoa — 25 75 Naples Palermo.. — 25 75 Messina — 25 771 Lisbon Oporto 11 19 12 s 2 12 2 25 75 25 75 13 10!, 25 30 :Za TT!, 25 80 120! 11 87f 11 90 48i 25 80 25 80 25 80 25 821 25 822 25 821 52 62k The half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Victoria (London) Dock Company was held to-day, Mr. Charles Morrison in the chair. The report, which was adopted, stated, that the bill for author ising the amalgamation of the London and St. Katharine's Docks, which contains the requisite powers for carrying into effect the agreement made between the Victcria (London) Dock Company and Messrs. Peto, Botts and Brassey, having receive d the Royal Assent, it became unnecessary to pros secute the bill promoted by the Company for that purpose, and it has accordingly been dropped. By the agreement with Messrs Peto, Betts, and Brassey, those gentlemen have the option of corn pleting the purchase of the dock and other property of the company, either in the month of August, or on the Ist January next. They have informed the Board that they elect to postpone the completion to the latter date. On the let January therefore they will pay for the company's stock at the rate of £lO7 I.os per cent., and for the company's shares at the price of £1 10s premium, in addition to the sum paid up or paid in advance of calls on each share. The shareholders will receive, .n addition, - the usual half-yearly divi dend at the rate of 5,1 per cent. per annum. The lessees will have the option of giving, and the shareholders of receiving, in lieu of payment in osh, the 4 per cent. debenture stock of the Amal gaoated London and St. Katharine's Dock Com panies', at such a prise as may be agreed on, but the acceptance at such stock in lieu of cash will be , o pti ona l with each shareholder. The directors will receive froLi the lessees any proposal which they may think / ,.toper on this subject, and will com municate the saLie to the shareholders in time for their decision befo:e tha Ist January. The llirnok of Peath states that the mountaineers of the district of Neidr a, and particularly those of Valeska and the neighbourhood, are reduced to such misery from the bad harvest of last year and the unfruitfulness of the present season, that they are obliged to live on the leaves of trees and roots. Subscriptions are being made for their relief. THE METRIC SYSTEM.--An Act of Parliament has just been printed to render permissive the metric system of weights and measures. It recites that for the promotion and extension of our internal as well as our foreign trade, and for the advancement of science, it is ex pedient to legalize the use of the metric system of weights and measures. It enacts that, notwithstanding everything contained in any Act of Parliament to the contrary, no contract or dealing shall be deemed to be invalid or open to objection on the ground that the weights or measures ex presseJ or referred to in such contract or dealing are weights and measures of the metric system, or on the ground that decimal subdivisions of legal weights and measures, whether metric or otherwise, are used in such contract or deai3ng. In a schedule annexed to the act the equivalents of metric weights and measures are set forth. ST. DAVID'S CAZHEDRAL.—There is every pros pect now that the restoration of this ancient cattle. dral, which has been in a ailapidated state for many a score of years past, will be at one proceeded with, A meeting of the Restoration Building Committee has been held, at which four tenders were submittal for carrying out the four divisions of the work, the totals beinj as follows :—G. Pol lard, £13,993; Hood and Son, Xlb, 813 ; T. Williams, £16,639; James and Price, £17,384„ ithe committee ac cepted the tender of Mr G. Pollard, and it was determined that the first division, comprising the lower pa ct of the tower and the choir, and the fourth division, comprisOg the dry areas and drains, should be first completed before o=2m:i -cing the other two divisions, This will involve an exi2encli tura of £8,978, and it was reported at the meeting that the subscriptions already promised amounted to £8,309. David's is the mother church of Wales, and the restoration is looked upon with general favour throughout the princi pality. The hon. secretaries of the rest or a ti on fund aro Mr C. Allen, Tenby, and the Rev. Canon Thomas, Steynton, Milford. TTAYES COMMON AGAIN ON FIRE.—On Sunday considei :q.ble alarm was occasioned by what appeared to be a very ,:xtensive fire, and which was visible over the w h o le of the mt.stropolis. Mr Henderson, of the London o co nductors of th e P r i nce o f W a l es ' Fire Brigade, and t... t1 New-cross, with numeroto parish Volunteer Fire Brigade, e of the conflagration, on 4 at the furze on Hayes-con,- engines, started for the Beet: There was no water to ach ing which it was ascertained mon, near Bromley, was in flamel,'• be obtained, and a stiff breeze prevait,lng, the flames spread like wildfire. Efforts were made by the police and others to extinguish the fire, but it was found in;pessible to do a nything but allow it to barn itself out, and about four acres of furze were consequently destroyed. This is the second tame the common has been on fire within a few days. LEAPING FROM A TRAIN.-01 1 Saturday evening Joseph Nixon, a lad between 12 and 13 years of age, the son of Mr William Nixon, a master carter, residing at Edge-hill, was killed at the Huyton station of the London and North-Western Railway, It appears the poor boy was sent to pay some club money for his brother, at the Queen's Arms Inn, at Huyton, and that he was afterwards to remain for some time at the house of his uncle, Mr Joseph Watkin, builder, of that village. At Edge-hill he by mistake got into the train which leaves Lime-street at 6 46, and which does not stop at Huyton, instead of the one that leaves at 7 o'clock. On reaching Huyton station he per ceived the error he had made, and, though the train was dashing along at full speed, he unfortunately opened the carriage door and jumped out just as the train had passed the platform. Ho fell upon his head, and was picked up insensible and bleeding profusely. Ho was taken into one of the waiting-rooms, and Dr. Gorst sent for. That gentleman was immediately in attendance, but medical aid was of no avail, the little fellow's skull being fearfully fractured. Ho flied in less than an hour after the accident, not having spoken or regained consciousness. The body was conveyed to the Queen's Arms Inn, where it awaits a coroner's inquest, and Mr Watkin then came to Liverpool to bring the melancholy tidings of his nephew's death to his parents. It seems that there were several persons—two of them men—in the same compartment of the carriage with the boy, and, most extraordinary to relate, none of them attempted to prevent him committing an act which was almost certain to result in his destruction.—Liverpool Mercury. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2i per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.20 per Ll sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 175.10 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is rather more than 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By adviccs from Hamburg the price of gold is 125 per mar and the short exchanv on London is 13.5: per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the I igllsh mint price is, t4erefore, about The British Archaeological Ass( )Ration, IPSWICH, a tug. 8. The twenty-first annual congress of th e British Archaeological Association commenced thiL s day at Ipswich. There was a great influx of arche eulogists by the various railway trains in the morn :ng, and at three o'clock a numerous assemblage col! ected in the council chamber of the Town-h all, w here the members of the association and visitors Were re ceived by the mayor and corporation. ' Among"those present were—Mr Tomrine, M.P., Mr. Cobbold, M.P., M r P e tti grew , Mr %1 right, Mr Planche, Mr. Gordon Hills, Mr Levi en, Mr G. R. Wright, Mr Previte, Mr Godwin, and many others of the leading members of the ast,ocih tion, besides a number of clergymen of the ne ightiour hood, and a large sprinkling of ladies. The MAYOR, in expressing his gratification at the visit of the Archaeological Association to Ipswich, regretted they had not como some years earlier, to have preserved from destrue tion many of the ancient monuments of Ipswich, of which few now remained. The town formed, however, an ex cellent centre for excursions, and objects of great interest to the antiquary, and he hoped they would spend an agreeable and interesting week. It would be his endeavour and that of the corporation to give them every possible assistance. Lord Houghton, the president of the meeting last year at Leeds, was unable to attend, therefore the usual formality of resigning the chair to his succes• sor was dispensed with. Mr PETTIGREW, as the oldest vice-president of the association, and one of its original founders, in troduced Mr Tomline, M.P., to the meeting as their president. He said the time was gone by when it was necessary to speak of the value of such asso ciations, as it was now generally admitted ; and the work they had accomplished in diffusing a taste for era w)logical researches, and in preserving the monuments of past times, had thrown much light on obscure parts of Mu Mato, .7- of 612. Igin g dom. Ho conelnded by pointing out the special qualifications of Mr. Tom line for the office of their president, to which he had been elected. Mr. TOMLINE then took the chair, and, after wel coming the association to the ancient kingdom of East Anglia—where the Roman, the Saxon, and the Dane had left their footprints—he proceeded, in a very eloquent address, to laud archee)logieal pursuits, and to indicate some of the many advan tages that had accrued from the efforts of the asso ciation since their first meeting at Canterbury, 20 years ago; amongst which were the formation of associated local societies, which aided materially to advance the progress of knowledge. He took a comprehensive view of the connection of archaeology with physical science, and of the mutual aid which they gave to each other. The rapid progress of knowledge at the present day, he observed, might be in a great degree attributed to the freedom of thought of the existing generation, for though our philosophers and men of science do not surpass, even if they equal, Plato or Galileo in intellectual capacity, they possessed the advantage of greater intellectual freedom. Mr. COBBOLD, M,P., moved, and Mr. GODWIN seconded, the thanks of tho meeting to tho presi dent for his able and eloquent address. The motion was carried by acclamation' The MAYOR directed the attention of the meeting to a relic of ancient times that was hanging at the top of the staircase of the Town-hall. It was a " ducking stool," into which the female scolds of Ipswich were formerly fastened, and dipped into water to cool their angry passions. The meeting was then brought to a close, and the company proceeded, under the guidance of Mr. Phipson, one of the luc3l secretaries, to examine some of the antiquities of Ipswich, including the town library, an antique house, called " Sparrow's House," the churches, and the museum. In the evening there was a meeting at the Assembly Rooms for reading papers and discus- sions. The programme for the week comprises excursions every day to objects of interest in the neighbour hood. To-morrow Bury St.Edmund.'s will be visited, where the members of the association will be re ceived by the mayor and corporation at the Guild hall, and they will after wards examine St. Mary's Churcb, the Norman Tower, St. James's Churcb, the Abbey ruins, Moyses Hall, and Abbot's Bridge. The excursion will be prolonged by visits to Hen grave Hall, Risby, and Little Saxham, and on the return to Ipswich there will be an evening meeting for reading papers and discussion. On Wednesday there is to be an excursion to Colchester, where the mayor and corporation will receive the archaeologists, who will find ample occupation in inspecting the various antiquities in the town. On Thursday there will be an excursion to Parham Hall and Church, thence to Bruisyard Church, to Dennington Church, and to Framlinghara, concluding with a visit to the president at Orwell Park in the evening. The excursion for Friday includes Woodbridge, Ufford Church, Buttry Abbey, and Orford Castle, On Saturday, Sudbury, Long Melford, Lowenham, and Hadleigh, and Little Wenham Hall will be visited, and the congress will conclude with an evening meeting. The Loss of the Corinthian Steamer. OFFICIAL REPORT. To tho Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee or Privy Council for T:ade. My Lords,—l have the honour to report that I have, in conjunction with Captain Harris and Baker, as Nautical Assessors, held an inquiry into the loss of the steamship Corinthian, off the coast of Portugal, on the 3d of July last. The Corinthian was an iron screw steamer, built at Greenock. in 1855, of 1,031 tons, registered at Liverpool, and owned by Mr James J. Bibby and others. She was commanded by Mr John Wheaton Goff, and had a crew of 32 hands. She sailed from Oporto, thoroughly equipped, on her home ward voyage on the 3d of July, at 1,45 p.m., with a cargo of cattle, win:, fruits, wool, &re She bad also oniboard four passengers, two of whom were to be, if practicable, landed at Vienna. The weather was clear, with a fresh northerly wind and a strong westerly swell. After leaving Oporto the vessel was steered a N.N.W. course for from fi., - e to seven miles, when a course was shaped N. by E. 1 E. at ',eng the coast towards Vienna. The speed of the ves sal i s vb .riously estimated at from five to six knots. At 5.40 p . m ., acco :ding to the evidence, the Raven Rock is alleged to have been :)assed, bat there is some little discrepancy in regard to the sa;stance from ;it. The Raven and the St. Bartholomew's Reeks form a dangerous group, front ing the coast, a little to the southward of the river Neiva. Three-quarters of an hour after passing the Raven Rock, and while pursuing the same course the vessel struck. The engine: were kept g oing a-head, and cattle yvere shifted forward w bring the vessel on an even keel, and the injection hose having been oh, ked, the e ngines necessari.v stopped, and do not appear it) have been subsequently Moved, end every effort to ge.`• her off by making sail failez . .. About 2 a.m. he ship floated on the rise of the tide, and eat; k about an hour afterwards, dur ing which time the tide an 6 the westerly swell appear to have drifted her towards the shore. Ico lives were lost, and some of the live stock were saved. The evidence of all the witnesses belonging to the vessel, who were .before the court, tends to show that the Corinthian struck upoi,-,. a danger not laid down upon any chart or mentioned in any sat ling direc tions for the coast of Portugal. This conclusion is strongly confirmed by the testimony of Mr John A. Perry, Com mander of the steamer Braganza, who on the day follew;ing went down to the wreck to render assistance. Leaving 1n.. 1 own vessel at a distance of two and a half miles N.W., he proceeded to the wreck, and found the masts' heads above water and a portion of her taffrail visible. Having left a lighter by her to save property, he returned. On reaching his own ship, which had been nearly stationary, he found that his mate had obtained irregular soundings, ranging from 4to 12 fathoms. Ho then proceeded to Vienna, and anchored outside the bar, and a pilot came on board, who informed him that he had, in al probability, passed over the same danger on which the Corinthian had grounded, but a rising tide and his light draught of water had saved him. From this it w ould a pp ear that the danger in ques tion is well known to the local pilots. On the sth, while at anchor, Capt. Pony, who appears to be a very intelligent officer, took bearings of the wreck, from which he has con structe€l a very neat chart, showing the precise position of the wreck where she now lies, and which I now append to this report for the information of your lordships. Upon this evidence I have felt myself justified in acquitting the master of the Corinthian of any default in the loss of his vessel, and have accordingly returned to him his certificate. In doing so I have deemed it my duty to point out to him that, in the opinion of myself and of my assessors, he navi: gated his ship too near the land in the vicinity of the St. Bartholomew Shoals; and having failed to take any bear. hags when the vessel was stranded upon this dangerous rock, its true position is left to this moment very doubtful. —I have, &c., T. S. RAFFLES, Police Magistrate, Liverpool. We concur in this report, IThe. Halms 1 R. B. 8 A4 , 1 , , ! Nautical Assessors. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALLS'—Iasr EVENING. WOLVERHAMPTON STAXES. Even on Dollar (taken) GREAT EBOR HANDICAP. 4to 1 agst East Lancashire (taken) 7to 1 agst Caller On (taken) ST. LEGER. 7 to 4 apt Blair Athol (offered) 3to 1 agst General Peel (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Baragah (taken) BETTING AT MANCHESTER—Mox.DAY, For the Ebor Handicap 4 to 1 was the hichest offer against East Lancashire, and anything over 8 to 1 was taken freely about Caller Ou, There was a commission in the market to back Knight of Snowdon for the St, Leger, but it was only partially executed, at 25 to 1. Closing prices : EDOR HANDICAP. 4to 1 agst East Lancashire (take 5 freely) Bto 1 agst Caller On (taken and offered) 11 to 1 agst Welcome (taken) 100 to 9 agst Hymettus (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Alabama (taken) ST. LEGER. 14 to 1 agst Baragah (taken) 25 to 1 agst Knight of SnoNI don (taken and wanted) RACING FIXTUI rIIES FOR 1864. Lewes Au 5 Hunti ngdon .. 9 Wolverham p t on 9 Reading.......... Eghaxn Dover Oxford Yarmouth ............ 23 York August .......... Plymouth ............ 23 Lichfield .... 29 Devon and Exeter 30 Stocktcn 3O Derby .. 31 SEPT. Weymouth ............ 1 Baden-8aden....... 1 Warwick September.... 6 Bridgwater ...... 8 Leicester 8 Doncaster OCTI Bedford Edinburgh and Lothians Club. 5 Newmarket Second Oct. 10 Novsn Worcester Autumn .... 1 I Shrewsbury Autumn .. 14 I IRISH. SErTEMREE. :ItiBER. Curragh 6, 7, 8 OCTOBER. Curragh lB, 19, 20 Brecon I .. 19 Richmond Royal Caledonian Hunt 21 Monmouth 22 Manchester Autumn N ewmarketFirst October 27 ,limix Lincoln Releo .... l9 Glo ucester .... Newmarket :MEER. Hong on 24 Leamington &War. limit 22 STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864. NOVEMBER. Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22 Railway Traffic Returns for the Week, Miles Opened. Receipts. Railway& 1864. 1863. Belfast and N. Counties 136 Belfast and Comity Down— 49 Blyth and Tyne . 23 Bristol and Exeter 1214 Caledonian 252 Cambrian — 9 l 1854. 1863. Cockermouth & Workington Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock, & Passage... Cork and Youghal ..... Cornwall . Deeside Dublin & Bell ast Junction Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Meath _ 32 6 1 65i 17 63 Dub. &Wicklow and Wexid 9ll Edinburgh and Glasgow 173 Furness, &c 5O Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union Great Northern • 353 Great North of Scotland 5B Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7lt Gt.Southn. & Westia.(lrind.) 37 32 Great Western 10564 Hull and Hornsea Inverness & Aberdeen Juno lO6l Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 Irish North-Western 145 Kent Coast 27 Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 Limerick and Ennis 241 Limerick and Foynes ...., 264 Llanelly 461 London & North-Western London and Blackwall London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast London, Chatham, & Do ver 724 Do. Metropolitan Extension 114 Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham 94 Maryport and Carlisle 2B Metropolitan 3 i Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 Midland Gt.Westn. of Isind 262 Monkland 7li Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal II North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Dar l 1095 North London 9 North Staffordshire 254 Oswestry and Newton... 5O Rhymney l9/ Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon .. ..... 751 South-Eastern 306 Taff Vale 57 Ulster lO5/ Vale of Clwyd....—.. lO Vale of Neath.. Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall . 271 W. Hartlepool Harbr. &Rail... 52 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt.. 10 Whitchaven Junction l3 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian _ ...... B2B 121 e 294 k ?it 329 1054 395 f 24, 26 410 i 10;9t 2,411 2.378 892 792 2,265 1,719 8,089 7,969 20,541 18,045 1,752 1,556 351 317 330 427 232 257 556 515 2,171 1.639 4:9 351 1 , 3 53 1.389 1,842 I,EGG 256 IE7 8,380 3,174 9,135 8.776 3,238 3.133 10,657 9,583 34,635 3e,62G 38,032 33,340 liB 39i 75i 306 Bahia and San Francisco 761 Belgian Eastern J unction 2 Bombay, Baroda, do Ccn. India 185 Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish Eastern Bengal East ern of France....... 1135 East Indian ...... lol2} Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Central of Belgium 18) Great Indian Peninsula 5)3 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madras Madrid, Saragossa ezAlicant 650 Northern of Canada ... . 94 Northern of France 607 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman .. _4B} 1051 26 185 161 t 185 1(.81 1 tO 1302 9321 1090 - 555 2:O ti Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1805 Paris and Orleans 1614 Pernambuco 77E Royal Danish 69 Soinde lO6 South Austrian .. .. 1527 Southern of France.......... 770 361 32 9,451 8,493 72,151 67,297 Victorian 196 Welland West Flanders W. N.W. of France 235 1,861, 1,488 2,321 1,586 3,203 120 13,473 38,090 1215 383 316 91 785 8:6 118,071 108,561 2,221 2,183 29,907 28.;87 29,069 29,569 8,2.4 6 872 2,760 1,480 19,367 17,315 1,503 1,425 1,571 1.26?. 2,.60 1,978 49, 83 15,503 4,186 4,190 1,7i8 1.460 2,711 2,519 15,911. 15,029 63,586 57,317 3,528 3,3 . 5 0,631 8,751 1,038 923 6,569 5,455 5 ,765 5,710 949 g 92 4,513 4,375 30,296 30,197 5,722 5,673 2, 3 34 2.221 2 5 6 270 3 , 13 1 2.579 395 394 3,153 1,(25 766 727 4,572 4.990 6 ti 622 1,0i7 637 857 bO6 31,218 30,060 334 - 302 295 3,711 2,768 1,966 1,921 1,i03 2,6*8 7,285 6,438 1,612 1,806 66,572 67,013 21,159 18,554 20, 45 16,072 5,6 8 1,808 495 11,128 11,338 134 4,541 1,357 79 033 567 3*5 8,937 8,:26 447 6,304 8.360 490 1.,470 20,010 91 2,352 ~ 1 e 7 697 55,533 53,805 44 1,446 1,001 481 387 343 1713 132,616 128,359 1491 62,915 57,660 77 562 682 69 105 1474 1.518 2,272 50,680 97,610 29,964 27,088 8,831 9,743 554 367 1,255 1,171 51,827 15,871 FEARFUL FALL OF A FEMALE INTO THE MAIN DRAINAGE WoRKs.---Yesterday Mr. Carter, the coroner, received information of the death of Mrs. Martha Matthews, aged 31 years, who resided at 73, Albany-road, Camberwell, which was occasioned under the following frightful circumstances :—lt would appear that on Satur day she came from her door, opposite to which—in the road way—was a cutting about 25 feet deep, belonging to the works of the Main Drainage. Having some curiosity to see the men at work she leaned over the barrier, when she lost her balance, and with a loud scream she was precipi tated head foremost into the sower. As soon as possible she was brought to the surface in an insensible condition, and conveyed to Saint Thomas's Hospital, where,' she was at once attended by Mr Siddall, the house surgeon, who found that her skull was fractured and that she was otherwise so dreadfully injured that she expired in a few hours. The deceased had left behind a family of five young children, and at the time of the occurrence was far advanced in pregnancy. I SEA-SICK IN A TEMPERANCE SHIP,—We noW i iroeseato Boston, Massachusetts, taking the steamer frcm New York for some 160 miles, to join the rail which. ran into the city. It was a dark stormy evening when we embar,t-ed, and soon, in consequence of a deluge of rain, w e were driven down into the close and unwholesome cabin, the vessel rolling fearfully. It was of rare occurrence for me to feel sea - sick, bat that evening I did, and in a s tate of misery known only to those who are so situated, I a s k e d said e . , I get something for you." a re b t k u . , l lled with a soda -water bottle fall of a the nearest nigger present to give me here,some tabaraganad.y.hirallge a temperums ship. ) --., what am I grinned and Julia' , h "I'l YuoTtthgeet deuceno brandy itii n said T.. ~ ed if i S at t e or y liquor, which he poured into nay half cup of dark -looking t H o e d i a nt r m " tea, saying, ,4 Dere, matoa, sarsaparilla bere good ting for sea-Sickness." I tasted, airld found it was excellent brandy. I gave him half a dollar, avd requested a little more ear. Baparilla, which be again poured into my fresh tea cup, w hileheheld his side with laughter and grinned like a hyena. I found in after-travelling that whenever I had the ill fortune to get on board a teroperance blip, that the niggers were always well supplied witLi sarsaparilla and liquors of every kind,—Musical and Tersan:3l Recollections of Henry Phillips. SUICIDE PROM A STEAMER.—About three a.m. on Sunday morning, while the steamer Rainbow was on her passage from London for Great Yarmouth, a passen ger was observed by the watch to lay his hat upon the deck and then jump overboard. An alarm was at once raised, but in vain, as the d e ceas e d did not again rim , to the surface. The suicide took place off Southwold , on the Suffolk coast, The deceased was dressed in a black alit, and in the hat was found the following address' without a name :—" Mrs. --, 93, Florence-road, New-cross, Lon don, S.E." The maker's name in the hat was "Both- Wick, Ilorselydown, Broadway, DaPtf" d '" FRANKFORT, Aug. 6.—The Legislative Body cf this city at its sitting yesterday gave its unanimous adhesion to the customs union based on the Franco. Prussian Treaty of Commerce. 'IJST. 4.r. a 1 ea" woe before rar e la don ee P dil l ' iota 0015° , ova o Rill° or the '1 at Le sdaY ) O bi : 31 I'D -01137. , e l l o' rota -OOP to 0f i o t he Prepree-, or% acres o 0 0 " T ' ord er cow' [a t be , W e) 0 , tht 3 3tte is 03 ' gr e SO /e.. l iite d e e , via he to the , o in% . r ou ,ot ie r , e a s y ios u 41(14